Word: curtained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...downstairs, discovers a party in progress. While guests make merry, large-footed detectives see that no one reaches Mr. Blake upstairs. As the curtain falls a shot is heard...
...untidy and elephantine, acts as master of ceremonies. He contributes a philosophical sketch, "Death Says It Isn't So," which critics said belongs in no revue. He takes part in flippant blackouts-in one he has to wriggle his giant form under a bed. He sings. In his curtain talks he fingers his straw hat diffidently, looks incredibly happy when his jokes cause laughter, bewildered when they do not. Sample of the Broun humor: "I made a bet that Abie's Irish Rose wouldn't run a week. . . . Finally I bet that it wouldn...
...shrewd, skeptical policeman entered the apartment across the street from the shadow Virgin. He walked into the front room. "Hello, Sam," he said to the truculent owner: Sam Genna, gangster and "alky-peddler." Then he pulled down the shade. The apparition, caused by light reflected through a lace curtain, disappeared...
...White House window curtain had been patched for economy; 2) the President, trying to nap, had ordered a carpenter pounding nearby to "declare a moratorium on noise''; 3) a hideout had been constructed near the White House laundries where Secretary Walter Newton could hold secret political interviews; 4) Mrs. Newton had fallen from her horse into the Rapidan. The only story that Secretary Joslin branded as untrue was one to the effect that a Hoover wolfhound bit a Marine guard and the President, patting the animal's head, remarked: "Nice doggie! Now go bite General [Smedley Darlington...
...play relates the difficulties of a rich loafer named Perry Morrison who gets drunk and runs off with his friend's fiancée, also drunk. Thereafter the hero is dogged until the final curtain by newspaper reporters, the girl's large father from the Texas badlands and alcoholic amnesia. Included in the proceedings is an inebriated Justice of the Peace (Hugh Cameron) whose lampoon of a toper is as amusing as Robert Middlemass' broad portrayal of the sturdy Western parent. At one point, when Mr. Middlemass has particularly good cause to suspect his daughter of impure...